rotating gun was a nice detail.
now add gameplay!

release 3: http://love2d.org/forums/download/file.php?id=1775 newest feature are AI players! They have interessting ways to suicide into the asteroids :megagrin: picture of new menu: http://www.abload.de/img/toll_menu_screenshots9r1.jpg click on the rotating spaceships to toggle keyboard player / AI...

uhm did you try it? pressing escape or return adds funny [] characters to the string, captital letters dont work and char makes Löve give "bad value" error on the € (euro) sign. after pressing shift or any other special key (page up, F1 etc) it stops adding to the string but the string sti...

http://love2d.org/wiki/ImageData:getPixel ?

vrld wrote:Although this too fails to explain why the rotation works

what do you mean?

i tested and unicode gives the unicode number not character. ie 97 for a, 98 for b and 13 for the return key. I find if (key >= 'a' and key <= 'z') more readable than if (unicode>= 97 and unicode <= 122) So, shift is in there, special characters, etc. Yup, thats the problem ;) filtering what numbers...

you should play Astropatrolonium. Its a great game. http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1716 Then look at its code where it says ----ship movement physik---- in function love.update(dt) then a few lines down you find: .... ... if (p.want_up) then local thrust_fx = -sin(p.b:getAngle()) *...

Hey thats a quite usefull idea. I would do it different though. Instead of checking for forbidden keys, check what letters are allowed, might be less work. The long list of keys at the top does not seem like good style. misspelling "currentstring" repeatedly Oh yes, i hate names like that ...

this is great. Never seen this kind of gameplay before. Is there no "Level Finished!" message yet or did I miss something? I transported the white ball into the green rectangle. The controlls could be better though. The shapes often rotate in an unexpected direction for me when I am moving...

it creates a small window with "INSTANT CHEER UP" in title bar, then closes after a second.
I want my instant cheer up!
LOVE 0.6.2, win xp, resolution 1600x1200x32, geforce 6800